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Your question is: why am I so interested in politics? But if I were to answer you very simply, I would say this: why shouldn’t I be interested? That is to say, what blindness, what deafness, what density of ideology would have to weigh me down to prevent me from being interested in what is probably the most crucial subject to our existence, that is to say the society in which we live, the economic relations in which it functions, and the system of power which defines the regular forms and the regular permissions and prohibitions of our conduct. The essence of our life consists after all, of the political functioning of the society in which we find ourselves. So I can’t answer the question of why should I be interested; I could only answer it by asking why shouldn’t I be interested? Not to be interested in politics, thats what constitutes a problem. You should ask someone who is not interested in politics; “Why, damn it, are you not interested?
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Politicalprof: Cliffs, and Fiscal Cliffs
A cliff is a sheer faced embankment of considerable height.
A fiscal cliff is a man made metaphor to describe the after effects of failing to meet man made deadlines to solve a man made problem.
The difference can be easily explained:
If you fall off a real, naturally occurring cliff, the…
President Barack Obama openly weeping as he talks to campaign volunteers [x]
This little candid speech was so powerful. You can tell, from the bottom of his heart, he believes in what we’re doing, and what we can accomplish together, and that someday when he’s no longer president - how possible it is that he might have the honor to cast his vote for someone who was listening in that room that night.
(via blackcatneighborhood)
This is the man that I credit with keeping me sane through the whole mess.
A few things to celebrate besides the president tonight:
The following are expected to pass tonight:
- Colorado will legalize marijuana
- Florida will not limit Obamacare in their state
- Florida will continue public funds for abortion
- Maine will allow same sex marriage
- Maryland will allow same sex marriage
- Massachusetts will allow medical marijuana
- Minnesota will not ban same sex marriage
- Washington will allow same sex marriage
- Washington will legalize marijuana
Smells like Freedom
I’m so proud of my sister state Maryland. Fuck yeah progressives!!!!!! <3
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Sympathy …
if nothing else, we should all be pretty sympathetic to both Romney and Obama today. They are just flat exhausted. It’s a ridiculous thing we do to presidential candidates, and they’re unspeakably tired. Now, after years of striving, one of them is going to lose. As a human being you have to feel for them.
Now, go vote and crush one of their souls …
Early Onset of Night: Tumblr has 9 million people on it.
Or some such shit.
Of that, 8.9 million of them are Americans.
Of that, 99.99% are for Obama.
Of that, half are old enough to vote: 4.4 million.
Of that, 1 million will actually vote: Tumblr is very fashion-driven and Obama is “in”. He’s the cool, chunky shoes everybody’s wearing (and thus…
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If you are bored and disgusted by politics and don’t bother to vote, you are in effect voting for the entrenched Establishments of the two major parties, who please rest assured are not dumb, and who are keenly aware that it is in their interests to keep you disgusted and bored and cynical and to give you every possible reason to stay at home doing one-hitters and watching MTV on primary day. By all means stay home if you want, but don’t bullshit yourself that you’re not voting. In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard’s vote.
David Foster Wallace, Up Simba (via junkycosmonaut)
Exactly.
so you think romney’s son buying voting machines in ohio isn’t going to make any impact on the election, right? WRONG. according to at least one person in columbus, ohio on the daily beast’s voter irregularity widget, machines with votes cast for obama are reporting as votes cast for romney. this is, in joe biden’s words, “a big fucking deal.”
spread this shit like wildfire.
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You know what would be a good idea? Get rid of President’s Day and give people the day off to vote.
Just my opinion.
Lincoln said a house divided cannot stand; we say a house divided leads to some hilarious election season yard signage.
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I reserved my right to bitch and be self-righteous for another year.
I voted today too. It felt great.
On day one of his presidency, Mitt Romney would seek a $500 million cut to FEMA as part of 5 percent across-the-board cut to discretionary spending, according to the Tweeted calculations of the Rolling Stone’s Tim Dickinson. (FEMA’s budget is around $10 billion.)
The pledge follows a string of Republican attacks on the disaster preparedness funds.
“Between 2010 and 2012, House Republicans forced a reduction of 43 percent in the primary grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency that pay for disaster preparedness,” reported The New York Times in August.
Last year, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) demanded that disaster relief funds for Joplin tornado victims be offset by spending cuts elsewhere.
Cantor sought FEMA money for his own district a few months later in the aftermath of the Aug. 23 East Coast earthquake.
- Lynne Peeples
